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PRECAMBRIAN ERA TIME BEGINNING AND ENDING

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13.7 bya-570mya

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PRECAMBRIAN ERA IMPORTANT EVENT AT 13.7bya

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big bang occurs

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PRE CAMBRIAN ERA IMPORTANT EVENT AT 4.5bya

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earth forms

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PRE CAMBRIAN ERA IMPORTANT EVENT AT 3.5bya

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life beings in oceans

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PRECAMBRIAN ERA IMPORTANT EVENT AT 3.2 bya

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first life forms (fossils) of prokaryotes

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Where were two sources of precambrian life found?

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FIG TREE ROCK (S.AFRICA) and WESTERN AUSTRALIA

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IMPORTANT EVENT IN PRECAMBRIAN ERA at 2.5 billion years ago?

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multicellular life present

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PALEOZOIC ERA TIME SPAN

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570mya-280mya

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PALEOZOIC ERA- CAMBRIAN START-

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570mya

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PALEOZOIC ERA- ORDOVICIAN START-

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500 mya

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PALEOZOIC PERIOD SILURIAN START-

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430 mya

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PALEOZOIC PERIOD DEVONIAN START

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395 mya

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PALEOZOIC PERIOD CARBONIFEROUS START

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345mya

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PALEOZOIC PERIOD PERMIAN ERA START

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280mya

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MEZOZOIC PERIOD TRIASSIC START

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225mya

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MEZOZOIC PERIOD JURASSIC START

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190mya

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MEZOZOIC PERIOD CRETACIOUS TIME

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136mya

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CENOZOIC PERIOD TERTIARY START

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65mya

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CENOZOIC PERIOD QUARTERNARY START

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1.8mya

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CENOZOIC TERTIARARY PLIOCENE EPOCH START

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5mya

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TERTIARY MIOCENE EPOCH START

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23mya

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TERTIARY OLIGOCENE EPOCH START

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34mya

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TERTIARY EOCENE EPOCH START

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55mya

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TERTIARY PALEOCENE EPOCH START

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65mya

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CENOZOIC TIME FRAME
1.8mya-65mya
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QUARTERNARY HOLOCENE START
.01mya
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QUARTERNARY PLESITOCENE ERA START
1.8mya
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CAMBRIAN AGE NAME
"AGE OF INVERTEBRATES"-floaters and trilobites present
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ORDOVICIAN ERA FINDS
FISH
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SILURIAN FINDS
JAWED FISH, AIR BREATHING ANIMALS, LAND PLANTS AND INSECTS
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DEVONIAN NAME
"AGE OF FISHES"- AMPHIBIANS APPEAR
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CARBONIFEROUS PERIOD FINDS
FIRST REPTILES, AMPHIBIAN RADIATION
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PERMIAN AGE FINDS
REPTILE AND MAMMAL LIKE CREATURES APPEAR
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TRIASSIC PERIOD FINDS
1st DINOSAURS, EGG LAYING MAMMALS and MARCUPIALS
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CRETACEOUS PERIOD FINDS
THERAPSIDS-MAMMAL LIKE REPTILES
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K2 EXTINCTION EVENT TIME
65mya
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WHO FOUND THE k2?
ALVAREZ
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FEATURES OF PRIMATES
generalized limbs, mobile digits, opposable thumbs, sensitive digits, no claws, small snout, bigger brain
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Plesiadapiformes
only fossil from paleocene era, a primate like mammal and forward facing eyes
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Dermoptera
flying squirrel
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carpolestes
5 fingers and toes, opposable thumbs, arboreal, but unable to leap
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scandentia
tree shrew-Hunan-2133/3133 dentation
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PALEOCENE NAME
PRIMATE LIKE MAMMALS
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EOCENE PERIOD
HEY DAY OF PROSIMIANS (ADAPOIDS AND OMOYOIDS)
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ADAPOID-AMPHIPITHECIDS
found in ASIA
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ADAPOID-NORTHCARCITIDS
found in NOrth America
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ADAPOID-MAHGARITA
LAST adapoid in N.America
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ADAPOID- CANTIUS
diurnal creature
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ADAPOID-ADAPIS
discovered by Cuvier
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OMOYOID-Eusmids
unknown
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OMOYOID-ROONEYIA
last one in N.America
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OMOYOID- NECROLEMUR
closely related to Tarsiers, fused lower leg bones)
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OMOYOID-TEILHARDINA
found on 3 continents, most PRIMITIVE found in Asia
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ELWYN SIMONS
professor who did studies in Egypt-El Fayum
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OLGIOCENE PERIOD NAME
GREAT ADAPOID RADIATION
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WHAT DID SIMMONS FIND?
PARAPITHICUS-related to NEW world monkey BIRTETIA-most complete remains Angyptopithecus- ancestor of old world monkeys and hominids Catopithecus- anthropoid features and catarrhine features
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MIOCENE- 23-5 mya
RISE AND FALL OF THE APES
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Proconsulids
APES- 23mya to 13mya FIRST DENTAL APES
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PROCONSULIDS WERE FOUND WHERE AND BY WHO?
MARY LEAKEY IN THE 1940's in RUSINGA ISLANDS
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DRYOPITHECUS
SALVADOR MOYA SOLA- 16mya to 8mya APE outside of africa
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SIVAPITHECUS-8mya
INDIA parents of orangutans

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